tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post31746484274064436..comments2024-03-14T04:53:49.513-05:00Comments on FemaleScienceProfessor: Your Logo HereFemale Science Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15288567883197987690noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-54600462804950503752009-05-29T14:23:20.746-05:002009-05-29T14:23:20.746-05:00I use logos on every slide because I'm corporate l...I use logos on every slide because I'm corporate like that. It's all about the marketing of the brand. Can't market the brand if people don't know where the research came form.Global Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13119668041288146887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-83676414063287565682009-05-19T06:50:00.000-05:002009-05-19T06:50:00.000-05:00Whenever I have a poster or powerpoint presentatio...Whenever I have a poster or powerpoint presentation, I am supposed to use the university template. The poster template contains a rim along the bottom of the poster in the university colour, including the logo in the corner. The logo is basically the short name of the university with an abstract symbol. The powerpoint template also features the logo in the bottom corner. The colours and fonts used are in the university format.<br /><br />I don't mind using the formats, even though I don't like them very much, because it keeps me from spending too much time on formatting. The logo does not distract me, since it merely states where I'm from. When I have cooperated with another organisation, I stick their logo on the first slide along the university logo, but not on the next slides.<br /><br />I work at a European university.(i)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-89026792053120508592009-05-18T10:24:00.000-05:002009-05-18T10:24:00.000-05:00My employers logo is quite stylised and unfussy (a...My employers logo is quite stylised and unfussy (as it's a simplified derivative of a tiny part of the university arms), so shrinks down to be still present and visible, but taking up a tiny bit of the top right of the slide. And who looks at the top right of the slide that often? <br /><br />I believe they present us with templates, but I've got away with ignoring them so far.Mike the microscopistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-36134797688185167182009-05-18T08:28:00.000-05:002009-05-18T08:28:00.000-05:00My last university also "required" us to use the t...My last university also "required" us to use the templates they provided... with a logo on every blasted page. So I always made sure to go out of my way to cover the silly thing with graphs, photos, text - anything, really. I might have to use the wretched logo, but that doesn't mean I have to respect it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-89297498928544668642009-05-18T04:01:00.000-05:002009-05-18T04:01:00.000-05:00since grad school I was trained to cover every pre...since grad school I was trained to cover every presentation with tons of 'logos' - that of the university, collaborators' institutions, as well as the funding sponsors. it was pretty common for every slide in our presentations to have a logo at each of the four corners so when I see a logo-less presentation now I am suspicious as to WHY there are no logos. what are they trying to hide?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-43280936747727819572009-05-17T23:33:00.000-05:002009-05-17T23:33:00.000-05:00I like to place a small representative image on ea...I like to place a small representative image on each slide (sort of a logo for the paper) in the header area and give some affiliation type stuff as a footer. Since I tend to be a bad, pop in and out of talks kind of person, I like to provide some basic orientation information for those like me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-67823624651072382412009-05-17T21:09:00.000-05:002009-05-17T21:09:00.000-05:00Yeah, the mild yet snarling animal is supposed to ...Yeah, the mild yet snarling animal is supposed to be on each slide. I make it very small and stick it in a corner. I hope that at least those in the audience with poor vision will mistake it for a more distinguished shield! :-)Unbalanced Reactionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13407339711183651108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-49217971043087141842009-05-17T20:45:00.000-05:002009-05-17T20:45:00.000-05:00I use the logo on every slide, but its a small one...I use the logo on every slide, but its a small one at the header (lab) and institution (footer). They both fit in quite well with the minimalistic colour scheme we started using for our lab. One reason was our PI figured everyone was using all sorts of themes for posters and presentations that it would be better to unify the whole thing such that people can recognize that we are from the same place. <br />We don't have a crest as such and both logos are what you would consider "modern". I'm from an asian university if that helpsmuddled postdochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03476359650124669190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-48737072464638660982009-05-17T04:50:00.000-05:002009-05-17T04:50:00.000-05:00I used logo's heavily in one presentation since th...I used logo's heavily in one presentation since the work had been done with different collaborators and I wanted to show who contributed to what.<br /><br />Personally I find some of the NASA logos quite fetching and many of the shields used in european universities too similar to be distinguishable.Benne Holwerdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05699847364012275794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-64934873023863792992009-05-17T03:29:00.000-05:002009-05-17T03:29:00.000-05:00I'm also at a European university, and while there...I'm also at a European university, and while there's no specific requirement, we are encouraged to have our university logo on the title slide, or at the top of a conference poster. It's relatively dignified (it represents a piece of architecture on campus) but as the university dates from the 60s it's not historic by European standards.<br /><br />We would only put it on the first slide, but we would also add (especially on posters, now I think of it, where you can't say it out loud to every attendee) logos of the funding bodies. Where I have a student who is funded directly by the university I would also say this at the start of a talk:<br /><br />"I'd also like to thank Greenfield U who funded A. Student's research, and the Research Council for the Obvious who funded the later stages of the project"<br /><br />In that case I might only use the university's logo. I wouldn't use the university's logo in a job talk, though, as I'm representing myself, not them, but I would probably use or mention the funding council's logo to demonstrate how good I am at getting funding.Dr Spousenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-48701650400134389012009-05-16T07:19:00.000-05:002009-05-16T07:19:00.000-05:00I usually have a logo on the title slide. Very oc...I usually have a logo on the title slide. Very occasionally a small logo in the corner of each slide.Thomas Lumleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-33867980234441570582009-05-16T06:00:00.000-05:002009-05-16T06:00:00.000-05:00I'm at a European university, and we are required ...I'm at a European university, and we are required to use the university templates for posters, presentations etc. Most people have resigned and use the templates without complaining too much. In fact, this seems to be the rule at most universities around here, and as a result of this most scientists simply expect the logos at presentations and does not get bothered by them any more or even notice them at all. <br /><br />The templates are often boring, but in most cases they at least prevent the more stupid backgrounds that you can use in powerpoint that are very flashy but prevent anyone in the audience from actually being able to read the text.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-83433326449818676792009-05-15T23:32:00.000-05:002009-05-15T23:32:00.000-05:00One of my professors made me put the logo on every...One of my professors made me put the logo on every single slide...and that's how he does his stuff too.engineering undergrad girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-57114441970344153372009-05-15T22:28:00.000-05:002009-05-15T22:28:00.000-05:00Point the first. Apparently, it has not occurred t...Point the first. Apparently, it has not occurred to some institutions that "encourage" the logotyping of slides that the majority of scientific talks, especially at large meetings, are boring, pedestrian or overtly awful. Yet the want their brand welded to the talks. Fools.<br /><br /> Point the second. Almost all slides are projected at 1024 x 768 resolution. This is *very* low bandwidth for the human visual system. It is a very bad idea to further degrade the bandwidth by contaminating a significant fraction of the visual field with irrelevant garbage.Spiny Normanhttp://spinynorman.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-9858801389449368152009-05-15T21:58:00.000-05:002009-05-15T21:58:00.000-05:00@Kevin:
Those labels on the slides are not for tod...@Kevin:<br /><I>Those labels on the slides are not for today's audience, but for the much larger audience of people who read the slides off the web. It also helps the presenter make sure that they've clicked on the right presentation.</I>Even so, it is unnecessary to have such a label on EVERY slide. Slide space is too valuable to clutter up with redundant information, IMO.Susan B. Anthonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-86171465932819053932009-05-15T20:28:00.000-05:002009-05-15T20:28:00.000-05:00required on every slide of a presentation or just ...required on <I>every slide</I> of a presentation or just somewhere (title or conclusion)?Female Science Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15288567883197987690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-72145086702012952302009-05-15T20:25:00.000-05:002009-05-15T20:25:00.000-05:00Yeah, I don't like it, but my institution requires...Yeah, I don't like it, but my institution requires it. Unfortunate, really, since <br />1. the logo does in fact feature a mild yet snarling animal, and, <br /><br />2. the colors are hideous.Unbalanced Reactionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13407339711183651108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-451067571888483432009-05-15T19:57:00.000-05:002009-05-15T19:57:00.000-05:00University logo and Research-Council logo go on th...University logo and Research-Council logo go on the title slide. Research council then get a proper mention on the final Acknowledgements slide. University do not.<br /><br />tigAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-45756118300340768812009-05-15T18:48:00.000-05:002009-05-15T18:48:00.000-05:00Some comments sent to me separately have suggested...Some comments sent to me separately have suggested that perhaps American academics are more inclined to logo than Europeans, but in fact my recent experience was the opposite, hence my question about the importance of the specific logo design. At a recent conference I saw lots of historic crests and shields and crowns and such as design elements on slides in talks by European scientists, but the Americans were much more restrained (in this case anyway).Female Science Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15288567883197987690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-43279545642432695172009-05-15T15:16:00.000-05:002009-05-15T15:16:00.000-05:00And what about the ones who feel the need to have ...<I>And what about the ones who feel the need to have "Colloquium, University of X, Today's Date" at the bottom of each slide? What, the audience doesn't know where they are or what day it is?</I>Those labels on the slides are not for today's audience, but for the much larger audience of people who read the slides off the web. It also helps the presenter make sure that they've clicked on the right presentation.Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14528751349030084532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-75409253742398980542009-05-15T15:01:00.000-05:002009-05-15T15:01:00.000-05:00You missed one reason for logos on every slide. Pe...You missed one reason for logos on every slide. People ask to borrow slides and use them in their own presentations. This is especially true for some background/introductory slides which are sometimes hard and time consuming to do right. <br /><br />Having an unobtrusive logo on each slide can be one way to make sure the presenter remembers to give credit to the originator of the slide/data.bscinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-73418093924011212712009-05-15T14:55:00.000-05:002009-05-15T14:55:00.000-05:00Another thumbs down for logos on every page. And ...Another thumbs down for logos on every page. And what about the ones who feel the need to have "Colloquium, University of X, Today's Date" at the bottom of each slide? What, the audience doesn't know where they are or what day it is?Susan B. Anthonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-33527314107265389792009-05-15T13:09:00.000-05:002009-05-15T13:09:00.000-05:00I would like to speak to the mis-perception that t...I would like to speak to the mis-perception that this sort of thing is "arty." No graphic designer worth their salt would do anything but sneer at the logo-on-every page thing. This is pure corporatism and is really most offensive at the level of aesthetics. As the post made clear, mostly these logo's only serve to distract from the content of the slide. And usually, the logo isn't distinctive enough, or the text legible enough to even reliably IDENTIFY the organization. In the end, it is just some roundish blob obscuring the content. Awful.yoliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05377530393720341372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-9197179694150342382009-05-15T13:03:00.000-05:002009-05-15T13:03:00.000-05:00Since any use of the university logo requires perm...Since any use of the university logo requires permission of the athletic department (a liberal arts degree gives athletes the opportunity for a more well rounded education here), in research presentations I simply state my affiliation and omit the logo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-54622658403055818002009-05-15T12:29:00.000-05:002009-05-15T12:29:00.000-05:00funny question. I think some logos are nonsensical...funny question. I think some logos are nonsensical shapes and I can't remember one shield from another, so I'm not sure I see the point unless you're a) forced to use it for PR, b) not creative enough to come up with your own template.<br /><br />@Gwen re: "art stuff"- you'd be amazed how many scientists notice this stuff and are bothered by it; similarly, how many are subconsciously influenced by the beauty (or lack thereof) in presentation formats for figures, posters and talks. A symmetrical presentation of data will usually get you a lot farther than a haphazard one. Don't believe me? Do the experiment.Ms.PhDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06542602867472447035noreply@blogger.com